Dystopian Fiction

Fiction

Technology and Terror Fill Shah’s Dystopian Society

In Bina Shah's Before She Sleeps (Delphinium), the ratio of men to women in a South West Asia capital has become increasingly and critically low. In order to fix the problem, the government has taken on using modern technology, combined with terror, to ensure that women take on multiple husbands, to…

BookTribAugust 6, 2018

Listicles

Seasonal Affective Disorder, But Make It Literary

Daylight Saving Time ends this weekend, marking the beginning of the dreaded dark winter months. Ready to embrace the lack of light with reads that are just as brutal as a 4 PM sunset? If you’re looking to curb seasonal affective disorder as much as one can, consider embracing the…

Cameron KimballOctober 29, 2025

Book Club Network Fiction

Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Klara and the Sun” Explores Humanity and the Ethical Conundrum of AI

“A haunting fable of a lonely, moribund world that is entirely too plausible.” — Kirkus Reviews —∞— “Moving and beautiful … an unequivocal return to form, a meditation in the subtlest shades on the subject of whether our species will be able to live with everything it has created." — The Los…

Karina Holosko, M.A. English LitMarch 2, 2021

Book Club Network Fiction Fiction - Featured

Most of Humanity May Have Regressed to the Stone Age, But “Primitives” is a Work of Art

Is humanity worth saving? Time and time again, this question has been posed by popular media. From the Mad Max films and Octavia Butler’s The Parable of the Sower to productions as mainstream and recent as Marvel’s Eternals and AMC’s The Walking Dead, the question has been answered in just…

Wyatt SemenukJune 23, 2022

Feminist Dystopian Novels from the Same Era as Handmaids Tale2

Listicles Popular

The Forgotten Feminist Dystopias That Predicted Our Present

At a time when women’s rights are once again threatened, it’s worth looking back at what feminist authors warned us about decades ago. When Margaret Atwood published The Handmaid’s Tale in 1985, she was part of a powerful wave of women writing feminist dystopian science fiction, which we now call…

JeriAnn GellerSeptember 19, 2025

Listicles

Cli-Fi Novels with Rich People Building In Inadvisable Places, Inadvisably

SALVAGIA, my debut sci-fi mystery, is set along the future flooded Florida coast. Mean season is twice as long and twice as strong, and Miami is long abandoned. Despite this, lots of money is about to come in to build it all up again and make most of the same…

Tim ChawagaSeptember 3, 2025

Miscellany

Predicting the Future, from Ancient Greece to Modern Sci-Fi

The concept of predicting the future has changed over time. If we were to go back to Ancient Greece, say, and ask the Oracle at Delphi about the future, the answer, wreathed in riddles, would be about a specific event. Croesus (the “rich as” guy) famously asked if he should…

Adam OyebanjiMay 22, 2025

BooksToScreen Listicles

8 Books of Survival and Sacrifice That Echo “The Last of Us”

Hey Kiddo. If the gruesome setting of The Last of Us left you reeling for more stories of survival, found family and the haunting beauty of decay, you're in the right place. Whether you're drawn to tales of fungal terror, dystopian futures or post-apocalyptic perseverance, this list includes books that…

BookTribMay 14, 2025

Fiction Listicles

7 Books That Are So Confusing (In the Best Way)

When was the last time you were fully immersed in a book? When you looked up from the page and took a moment to remember where you were, when the last time you drank water was, and wondered, since when had the sun gone down? For a lot of us,…

Cameron KimballNovember 4, 2024

Fiction

Young Lives Shattered in Dark Dystopian Fantasy, “The Capital of Dreams”

The Capital of Dreams is one of those rare books that when finished leaves the reader both slightly mystified yet completely held in its thrall, dazzled by the imaginary world created by author Heather O’Neill. It defies standard genre classification as this novel-length fable blends magical realism with literary fiction…

Linda HitchcockFebruary 19, 2025

BooksToScreen Listicles Thrillers

7 Survival, Betrayal and High Stakes Thrills That Hit Harder Than “Squid Game”

If the nail-biting suspense and psychological twists of the addictive Netflix show Squid Game, had you hooked, you're not alone. The show has captivated viewers with its high-stakes drama, exploration of human nature, moral dilemmas, and creative kills, leaving fans craving more stories that dive deep into the darkness of…

Monique SnymanJanuary 15, 2025

Sunrise on the Reaping Suzanne Collins Hunger Games

BooksToScreen Fiction

Cover Reveal and What to Expect From the Upcoming Hunger Games Book and Movie

Fans of the blockbuster The Hunger Games series are in for two new thrilling installments in the world of Panem soon. Scholastic Publishing recently announced it has acquired the world English rights to the fifth entry in Suzanne Collins' series, Sunrise on the Reaping, which “will revisit the world of…

Jodé MillmanJune 14, 2024

Fiction

A Recurring Dream Inspired This “Cozy Apocalyptic” Novel

I wanted to write a book about the end of the world — the end end, not a book where it almost ends and someone saves it, or one where it could end if these shadows remain unaltered, or even one where the earth is destroyed but the humans escape…

Suzy KrauseSeptember 17, 2024

Fiction

BookTrib Q&A: A Futuristic Chat with Jordan Philips, Author of ‘Futura: A Novella’

Dystopian fiction that gives us a bleak view of humanity like The Hunger Games, The Maze Runner series, and The Handmaid's Tale are at peak popularity. Perhaps this is why Jordan Phillips' new work, Futura: A Novella seems like it's coming out of left field. Rather than harsh climates, or totalitarian government regimes where…

BookTribJanuary 12, 2018

Fiction Young Adult Young Adult - Featured

“To Hover Over Waters” Presents Intriguing Challenges, Emotions for “Invisible” Youths

In William Golding’s iconic novel Lord of the Flies, a group of schoolboys is stranded after a plane crash on an uncharted island. Far from civilization and with no adult supervision, they have a rare sense of freedom and govern by their own rules. While it wouldn’t be fair to…

Jim AlkonOctober 19, 2021

Book Club Network Fiction Fiction - Featured

Humanity’s Rules Become More Complex as AI Changes Life’s Fine Print

“Terms of Service” can be found in the fine print at the bottom of most websites we enter every day, and we blindly click “ok.” But have you ever read any of these agreements? In the existential sci-fi thriller Terms of Service, which blurs the lines between what might happen…

Karina Holosko, M.A. English LitMarch 4, 2022

Technology and Terror Fill Shah’s Dystopian Society

Seasonal Affective Disorder, But Make It Literary

Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Klara and the Sun” Explores Humanity and the Ethical Conundrum of AI

Most of Humanity May Have Regressed to the Stone Age, But “Primitives” is a Work of Art

The Forgotten Feminist Dystopias That Predicted Our Present

Cli-Fi Novels with Rich People Building In Inadvisable Places, Inadvisably

Predicting the Future, from Ancient Greece to Modern Sci-Fi

8 Books of Survival and Sacrifice That Echo “The Last of Us”

7 Books That Are So Confusing (In the Best Way)

7 Survival, Betrayal and High Stakes Thrills That Hit Harder Than “Squid Game”

Cover Reveal and What to Expect From the Upcoming Hunger Games Book and Movie

BookTrib Q&A: A Futuristic Chat with Jordan Philips, Author of ‘Futura: A Novella’

“To Hover Over Waters” Presents Intriguing Challenges, Emotions for “Invisible” Youths

Humanity’s Rules Become More Complex as AI Changes Life’s Fine Print

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